Month: June 2020

Ferguson living the dream

NZHarnessNews

By Michael Guerin If Dylan Ferguson trains a winner at Cambridge tonight he won’t get the official credit. But that is a small price to pay for the education he is getting studying at the University of Rogey. That is because day in, day out 23-year-old Ferguson gets to learn from training legend Graeme Rogerson, who has done almost everything a horseman can do in Australasian racing. Rogerson is of course better known in the thoroughbred world but since trying his hand at harness racing a decade ago he has…

Betterbebetter vying for back-to-back wins

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By Josh Smith – Harness News Desk Trainers Frank Cooney and Tate Hopkins are looking for more of the same from Betterbebetter when she lines-up in the Amber Garden Centre Mobile Pace (2200m) at Cambridge Raceway on Thursday. The four-year-old daughter of Bettor’s Delight won first-up at Cambridge Sunday-week ago, which came as a pleasant surprise to her connections. “I was really happy with last start’s run,” Hopkins said. “It surprised us a little bit with how much forward she was, but it was a good effort. “She has trained…

Hill hoping to give May first win back

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By Michael Guerin Brendon Hill wants to provide his little mate with THAT moment at Addington tonight. The moment everybody in New Zealand harness racing thought we might never see again, champion driver Ricky May winning a race. When May slumped unconscious in the sulky and nearly died mid-race at Omakau in January his close friend Hill feared the worst. He wasn’t far from being right. “I think all of us feared we might not see Ricky again that day,” says the astute Canterbury trainer. “So to have him coming…